This issue of Microscopy and Microanalysis contains selected
papers from the fifth Regional Workshop of the European Microbeam
Analysis Society (EMAS) on Electron Probe Microanalysis—Practical
Aspects that took place May 22–25, 2002 at Szczyrk, Poland. The
meeting was organized by the Polish National Branch of EMAS in
collaboration with the Silesian University of Technology (Faculty of
Materials Engineering and Metallurgy) and the Polish Academy of Science
(Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science).